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Movie recommendation websites?

yourspaceholidayyourspaceholiday Registered User regular
edited September 2008 in Help / Advice Forum
So, I just recently cancelled my Netflix account, and instead, I'm going to make use of my local library. One thing I loved about Netflix was the "You might also like..." recommendations, and going 3 or four layers into those to find really wild movies that I've never heard of. Since I no longer have access to that, is there a website that has a similar feature? IMDB's recommendations seem pretty poor, especially compared to what Netflix did. Thanks

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  • QuidQuid Definitely not a banana Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Aren't you still able to rate movies and get recommendations from that in hopes that you'll restart your account?

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  • yourspaceholidayyourspaceholiday Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    Doesn't look it. I think that only works if you put your account on hold, which only "cancels" it for 90 days

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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu PIGEON Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    MoviePig purports to work.

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  • BlackbeardonGuitarBlackbeardonGuitar regular
    edited September 2008
    You could always go to amazon and see what else people bought. Itll give you somewhere between 2-5 other movies or things similar.

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  • fuelishfuelish Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    I found the best way was to look for genre, say, "British gangster movies" then take the results to IMDB and read the reviews, check the score, trivia, etc. This is more work than letting a site just pick for you, but you can find some great stuff this way. "The Long Good Friday" Is an example, a movie I found using this system. It was great, ***

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  • useless4useless4 Registered User regular
    edited September 2008
    just post your last four movies here that you liked and i am sure as a collective "we" we will make things up!

    strangely the best way i find movies is to read roger ebert reviews. for some bizarre reason, if i read a review (music or movie) i have damn near 100% word for word retention (not when I read anything else though). reviews stick with me when I am looking at dvds to get and i base them off the reviews (not is it good or is it bad, but more like this movie was attempting this or succeeded at this type reviews)

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